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AMSTERDAM - Pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly’s experimental drug donanemab slowed the progression of Alzheimer’s by 60 per cent for patients in the earliest stages of the brain-wasting disease, according to trial data presented at a medical meeting on Monday.for the trial’s overall treatment group.
The study showed that brain swelling, a known side effect of drugs like donanemab, occurred in more than 40 per cent of patients with a genetic predisposition to develop Alzheimer’s. Donanemab, like Eisai and Biogen’s recently approved Leqembi, is an intravenous antibody designed to remove deposits of a protein called beta amyloid from the brains of Alzheimer’s patients.
She said the findings support the idea that donanemab can be stopped once amyloid is cleared from the brain. The full study results were presented at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference in Amsterdam and published in American medical journal Jama.
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